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Katie Beirne Fallon, a former aide to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), has quietly slipped into numerous Republican leadership offices and huddled with GOP leaders and top aides since her appointment as White House legislative affairs director was announced in mid-December, according to multiple sources.

Fallon met with Mike Sommers, Speaker John Boehner’s chief of staff, several times, and last Friday, she sat down with Boehner himself. Fallon has also met with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and their top aides.

In coming weeks, Fallon will huddle privately with House Republican committee chairmen as well, the sources said.

Fallon is scheduled to hold a private session with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in his office following next week’s congressional recess. She has already spoken to McConnell during one of his visits to the White House, and she’s had conversations with the Kentucky Republican’s top aide, Sharon Soderstrom.

Fallon has also met with a number of rank-and-file Senate Republicans.

She’s also working on the administration’s relationship with congressional Democrats. Fallon has held extensive discussions with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and other top Democratic lawmakers and staffers, sources said. This comes on top of private sessions with Senate Democrats. Fallon is also a regular at meetings of the House Democratic Caucus.

“These conversations are part of our ongoing outreach to members of Congress of both parties in order to find common ground to make progress on behalf of the American people,” said White House spokesman Eric Schultz.

Fallon was a longtime aide for Schumer, and she helped run the Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Center — which did press for the Senate Democratic leadership - until May 2013, when she was named White House deputy communications director. She is married to Brian Fallon, another former Schumer aide who is now the top spokesman for the Justice Department.

Fallon’s outreach to lawmakers is notable, as the Obama White House - which implements its legislative agenda mainly through Reid and Pelosi - has not made high priority of building personal relationships with members of Congress.

Republicans and Democrats have long complained that Obama’s Capitol Hill operation is lackluster. Few Republicans knew Miguel Rodriguez, Fallon’s predecessor and a one-time aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton. The main connection between the White House and Hill Republicans has been Rob Nabors, a former House Appropriations Committee staffer who is now a deputy chief of staff for Obama.

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, a former staffer for Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), has made a concerted effort to increase direct contacts with the Hill since he took over his post a year ago. Lawmakers and their aides are waiting to see whether the new approach will pay off.

“It will be really interesting to see if [Fallon] can turn things around,” said a senior House Republican staffer. “She’s got a good rep, she certainly seems to be willing to talk to people up here. We’ll see if it actually leads to something.”